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I actually enjoyed the way Rolemaster handled spellcasting. In a campaign a while back I had a dwarven paladin cast a *very* simple spell for him, yet I low open ended so badly (-300ish) that went into a week-long coma and my effective caster potential was halved for another week. I liked the...

* I enjoy the stern-hearted, no nonsense serious gnome FAR more than the slapstick nefarious "troublemaker" gnomes. It does their reputation a world of good. Seeing a human heedlessly rush into a hopeless fight and take out more enemies than thought possible before being felled himself, that's...

I'm willing to bet that your character threw up more exceptions that clockwork had to moderate than all the characters combined. That suggests one of two things: 1) Clockwork has it out for you or 2) your character's intent simply didn't fit with his guidelines. Now before you start jumping on...

I don't know about you guys, but I'm here to have a good fight and have fun (and maybe win if I'm lucky), not play "who can find the most broken combo loophole". Sure we're all pretty powerful and minmaxed, but there's making a powerful/minmaxed character, and then there's bickering, arguing...

Those lucky enough to go to press screenings of LOTR:TTT got some neat swag. One of the things they got was a CD with this very large, high quality (and highly detailed) JPEG of Middle Earth. It's been making its way around the internet slowly, so I figured it'd be worthwhile to post here...

That's essentially how my PCs are composed right now (trade fighter for monk and illusionist for sorcerer). What they're dying for is a nature-attuned individual. They also could use another tank, but make due. Take a look at the setting you'll most likely be in. If it's outdoors a lot, a...

Some ideas that might help flesh him out: * Not only having a low int (which I like to think of as "memory" and "reasoning", but he's also got high wisdom (which I consider "intuition" and "willpower"). In general, he doesn't know what to do (whether he thinks he does or not), but he knows...

I agree with the situational approach. Typically we put the tanks in front, but mostly because our DM throws ambushes at us more than traps. And after our party grew vary fearful of the DM's oft-used phrase, "Ok, who's in the back?", we now put the barbarian at the back. First off he's...

Terrasim (Ancryx) and myself have teamed up. Also for added fun, everyone go make your character's portrait with heromachine. Here's my guy:

Fingolfin. email: mwcordes at yahoo.com I'm looking for a partner. I prefer a spellcaster (meaning we'd compliment eachother), and divine spellcasters will work a little better over arcane, but not by a whole lot. Email me or use ICQ/AIM and drop a message (my computer's usually on so i'll...

Doh, I meant to put this in D&D rules, not house rules. Could a mod move this?

Some quick background: I'm running a campaign where I'm having Orcus (or at least one of his cronies) being one of the arch villains responsible for much of what the PCs will encounter. Being that Orcus's theme is that of demons with an undead twist, I'm going to have them come up against some...

You or your DM have seen this, right? It should be at your local game store, and does a relatively decent job while at the same time not making a character who can channel a hair decimate any non-channeling opponent :). http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?WTC11996

I'd really like to see how a half-orc wiz/sorc would do. Then to make it really neat you give some levels of barbarian, so they have the bufs and whatnot for sorcer (emphasis on bufs) and utility stuff on wizard. So in combat you buff yourself up and wade in raging. Kind of an intersting...

And I was just about to mention the Rolemaster experience system and how it's even more flawed than 3E. Actually it's a pretty good level-less system, but it has some serious flaws especially when it comes to combat. I like your system, and I think I might adopt a modified version of it for my...

Whenever the party does something for a very powerful being that's magic-oriented (high level spellcaster, agent of a deity, etc), instead of a great reward, sometimes I'll give them something similar to a beeper. Basically if they're ever in a bind, no matter what type, they activate this...

We had a couple campaigns with 10 PCs back when 3E only had the core rules out. It is tough, don't expect to have everyone's attention except at key moments. Be on your toes in combat to keep it moving, after a while we made a rule that if you weren't ready to do something when your spot in a...

We usually try to have email coorospondance with the DM after a bad session with one group. Basically he'll start going over your character and things that just didn't get touched on during the session. That usually brings the interest back around. I don't understand it though, at one point...

I think we need to get some agreement on definitions. Or in other words, it's an imaginary setting. In the context the words are being used, imaginary and fictional are synonyms. Prove that they don't cover the same concepts (in the context, I know there are imaginary numbers but not fictional...

It might be a good idea to do a find for your suggestions on this page to make sure they haven't been mentioned already. Anime has some great storylines, at least if you adapt them. Plus there's a chance your PCs have never seen it so it'll seem original to them. 66. FLCL - the idea of...